September 17, 2023

We were traveling by rail when my friend told me that he planned to rob the group of laborers who were sleeping in one of the boxcars. When night came I woke up to the sound of him prying open the door to the container and I stood up in disbelief, knocking over a metal water bottle. He glared at me in response despite the fact that his clanging was much noisier.

Some of the workers inside the car started waking up and asking what was going on. My friend was already nowhere to be seen at this point. Their wallets had been riffed through, and their cash was gone. I didn’t think my friend was really going to go through with it, never mind taking everything in such a bold manner.

The train had stopped in a small town and a search party was organized to look for my missing friend but no one had any leads. We walked towards the graveyard by the docks as the fog settled in.